Search Results - subject:"job protection"

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

yields support to job protection legislation. This prediction is strongly supported by OECD panel data regressions including …

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Unemployment Compensation Finance and Labor Market Rigidity

Cahuc, Pierre; Malherbet, Franck - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The systematic use of experience rating is an original feature of the U.S. unemployment benefit system. In most states, unemployment benefits are financed by taxing firms in proportion to their separations. Experience rating is a way to require employers to contribute to the payment of...

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Unemployment Compensation Finance and Aggregate Employment Fluctuations

L'Haridon, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

benefit system. This Paper extensively addresses the effect of experience rating as an alternative to standard job protection … are increased over the cycle. Therefore, it may be worthwhile to shift standard job protection measures toward a more …

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Unemployment Compensation Finance and Labour Market Rigidity

Cahuc, Pierre; Malherbet, Franck - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The systematic use of experience rating is an original feature of the US unemployment benefit system. In most states, unemployment benefits are financed by taxing firms in proportion to their separations. Experience rating is a way to require employers to contribute to the payment of...

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Job Protection, Minimum Wage and Unemployment

Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

introduce a minimum wage in a coherent way, and to study its interactions with job protection policies. Our computational … Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) in order to get wage profiles with proper microfoundations. Then, it is shown that job … protection policies influence the wage distribution and that government mandated severance transfers from employers to workers …

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Redundancy Payments, Incomplete Labor Contracts, Unemployment and Welfare

Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

It is frequently argued that pure government-mandated severance transfers by the employer to the worker have neither employment nor welfare effect because they can be offset by private transfers from the worker to the employer. In this paper, using a dynamic search and matching model à la...

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